. The real Latin quarter . deep with little round tables, is rapidly fill-ing. The white-aproned garcons are hurry-ing about or squeezing past your table, asthey take the various orders. Un demi! un ! shouts the garcon. Deux pernod nature, deux! cries an-other, and presently the Omnibus in hisblack apron hurries to your table, holdingbetween his knuckles, by their necks, half adozen bottles of different aperitifs, for it ishe who fills your glass. It is the custom to do most of ones corre-spondence in these cafes. The garcon bringsyou a portfolio containing note-paper, a bot-tle of violet ink,
. The real Latin quarter . deep with little round tables, is rapidly fill-ing. The white-aproned garcons are hurry-ing about or squeezing past your table, asthey take the various orders. Un demi! un ! shouts the garcon. Deux pernod nature, deux! cries an-other, and presently the Omnibus in hisblack apron hurries to your table, holdingbetween his knuckles, by their necks, half adozen bottles of different aperitifs, for it ishe who fills your glass. It is the custom to do most of ones corre-spondence in these cafes. The garcon bringsyou a portfolio containing note-paper, a bot-tle of violet ink, an impossible pen that spat-ters, and a sheet of pink blotting-paper thatdoes not absorb. With these and your. aperatif, the place is yours as long as youchoose to remain. No one will ask you tomove on or pay the slightest attentionto you. Should you happen to be a cannibal chieffrom the South Seas, and dine in a greensilk high hat and a necklace of your latestcaptives teeth, you would occasion a pass-ing glance perhaps, but you would not be asensation. Celeste would say to Henriette : Regarde ca, Henriette! est-il drole, cesauvage ? And Henriette would reply quite assur-ingly: Eh bien quoi! cest pas si extraordi-naire, il est peut-etre de Madagascar; il yen a beaucoup a Paris maintenant. There is no phase of character, or eccen-tricity of dress, that Paris has not seen. Nor will your waiter polish off the marbletop of your table, with the hope that yourordinary sensibility will suggest anotherdrink. It would be beneath his professionaldignity as a good garcon de cafe. The twosous you have given him as a pourboire, he is well satisfied with, and expresses his con-tentment in a merci, monsieur,
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